Kalen DeBoer has four games of road experience as a first-year head coach for Alabama football.

He’s had two good times and two bad times, but it’s experience that will help him for Saturday’s intriguing atmosphere at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla. Oklahoma’s first year in the Southeastern Conference started promisingly at 4-1, but it has lost four of its last five matchups. Brent Venables’ team is 5-5 and desperately needs a win to become bowl eligible. There’s the Crimson Tide this week and a tough game next week at Tiger Stadium against LSU.

DeBoer managed Wisconsin and LSU on the road; however, Alabama fell to Vanderbilt and Tennessee.

In his game against the Tigers, DeBoer saw the Tide have their most complete game.

Jalen Milroe had 185 rushing yards with four touchdowns, while the defense held an explosive LSU offense to six points for much of the game. The Tigers got a touchdown with 11 seconds left in the game, but Alabama mostly stopped it.

People want to know if the team that faced LSU is the Tide team we’ll see moving forward.

DeBoer told Alabama fans on his weekly radio show that the team wants to prove the road mentality is real.